Digital-to-analog converter (DAC)


Posted on Feb 5, 2014

In electronics, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC or D-to-A) is a device for converting a digital (usually binary) code to an analog signal (current, voltage or electric charge). You can use DAC for testing circuits and amplifiers or for generating the high complexity signals. Digital to analog converter can be easily implemented with Pulse Width Modulation (PWM). On the following figure


Digital-to-analog converter (DAC)
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you can see three PWM signals with different duty cycles. The duty cycle describes the proportion of positive pulse width to the period. PWM waveforms with 33%, 50% and 75% of duty cycle are shown below. These three PWM signals can be converted to three different analog values, at 33%, 50%, and 75% of the full strength. For instance, when the voltage level is 5V and the duty cycle is 50%, digital to analog converter outputs 2. 5V. You can use PWM interface of DLN-series PC-I2C/SPI/GPIO Adapters to implement wide variety of digital to analog converters. These converters can be easily controlled from PC SW. DLN-series USB-I2C/SPI/GPIO adapters has both high-frequency and low-frequency PWM controllers. The high-frequency PWM (HPWM) suits better for DAC controlling.




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